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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Season 11 · Episode 31
Tom Hanks, Mavis Staples
3.641mNovember 3, 2025
Tom Hanks discusses ‘This World of Tomorrow’. Mavis Staples performs "Human Mind" from her new album, ‘Sad and Beautiful World’.
Episodes
- Episode 1John Oliver, Joe Dombrowski
- Episode 2Jamie Lee Curtis, Carmelo Anthony
- Episode 3Drew Barrymore, Katherine Maher
- Episode 4Cillian Murphy, Lady Gaga, Will Ferrell
- Episode 5Sonia Sotomayor, Eugene Levy
- Episode 6Jennifer Aniston, Cooper Hoffman
- Episode 7Usher, Mac DeMarco
- Episode 8Brandi Carlile, Samin Nosrat
- Episode 9Ron Howard, Gary Oldman
- Episode 10Jake Tapper, St. Vincent
- Episode 11Scarlett Johansson, Sen. Mark Kelly
- Episode 12Gov. Gavin Newsom, Priscilla Presley
- Episode 13Sen. Chris Murphy, Lainey Wilson
- Episode 14Jeremy Strong, Carrie Preston
- Episode 15Conan O'Brien
- Episode 16Jimmy Kimmel, Sam Smith
- Episode 17Julia Roberts, Sam Smith
- Episode 18Lady Gaga
- Episode 19Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, J.I.D
- Episode 20Bette Midler, Tim Meadows
- Episode 21Anderson Cooper, Mason Thames
- Episode 22Nick Offerman, José Andrés, Nathaniel Rateliff
- Episode 23Jeremy Renner, Karine Jean-Pierre, Laura Benanti
- Episode 24Michael J. Fox, Jeff Tweedy
- Episode 25Emma Stone, Alex Wagner
- Episode 26Ben Stiller, Tig Notaro
- Episode 27Emma Thompson, Judd Apatow, Thundercat featuring Remi Wolf
- Episode 28Colin Farrell, Cameron Crowe
- Episode 29Sarah Paulson, Sen. Ruben Gallego
- Episode 30Anthony Hopkins
- Episode 31Tom Hanks, Mavis Staples
- Episode 32Michelle Obama, Robert Plant
- Episode 33Tiffany Haddish, Gary Cole
- Episode 34Sydney Sweeney, Patti Smith, Guillermo del Toro
- Episode 35Demi Moore, Ken Burns
- Episode 36Claire Danes, Rep. James Clyburn
- Episode 37Jonathan Karl, Pete Townshend
- Episode 38Julia Roberts, John Fogerty
- Episode 39Ted Danson, Alison Roman
- Episode 40Benedict Cumberbatch, Patton Oswalt, Jesse Welles
- Episode 41Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Billy Strings
- Episode 42Lady Gaga, Mikie Sherrill, Kristin Chenoweth, Stephen Schwartz, Daniel Craig
- Episode 43Rachel Maddow, Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell
- Episode 44Michael Shannon, Jessie Buckley, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
- Episode 45Jen Psaki, "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Episode 46Sigourney Weaver, Mandy Patinkin
- Episode 47Laura Dern, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Evie McGee Colbert
- Episode 48Taylor Swift
- Episode 49Kate Winslet; Ben Cohen; Jerry Greenfield
- Episode 50Paul Rudd, Lesley Manville
- Episode 51Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, the Mountain Goats, Laura Benanti
- Episode 52Kumail Nanjiani, St. Vincent
- Episode 53Hugh Jackman, Nick Offerman
- Episode 54Ethan Hawke, Julia Ioffe
- Episode 55Jodie Foster, Tracy Letts
- Episode 56Chris Hayes, Natalie Portman, Robyn
- Episode 57Tom Hiddleston, Terry Gross
- Episode 58Jimmy Kimmel, Abigail Spanberger
- Episode 59Amanda Seyfried, Yo-Yo Ma
- Episode 60Paul Giamatti, Ryan Coogler
- Episode 61Stellan Skarsgård, Scott Galloway, Warren Haynes
- Episode 62Sen. Bernie Sanders, Lucinda Williams
- Episode 63Jane Fonda, Jessica Williams
- Episode 64Chance the Rapper, Maria Stephan
- Episode 65Gov. Josh Shapiro, The War and Treaty
- Episode 66Sam Rockwell, George Saunders
- Episode 67Bad Bunny, Katherine LaNasa
- Episode 68Alexander Skarsgård, Jacob Soboroff
- Episode 69John Oliver
- Episode 70Mark Ruffalo, Father James Martin
- Episode 71Ian McKellen, I'm With Her, Laura Benanti
- Episode 72James Taylor, Evie McGee Colbert
- Episode 73Jennifer Garner
- Episode 74Kaitlan Collins, Walter Isaacson
- Episode 75Sen. Jon Ossoff, Kyle MacLachlan, Thundercat
- Episode 76Melissa McCarthy, Michael Pollan
- Episode 77Ray Romano, Emma Thompson, Cory Wong
- Episode 78John Dickerson, Mitski
- Episode 79Teyana Taylor, Bradley Whitford
- Episode 80Kurt & Wyatt Russell, CMAT
- Episode 81Daniel Radcliffe, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brandee Younger
- Episode 82Jake Gyllenhaal, Maria Bamford
- Episode 83Steve Carell, Hozier, Lake Street Dive
- Episode 84Jimmy Fallon, Harvey Guillén
- Episode 85John Lithgow, Paul Rieckhoff
- Episode 86Michelle Pfeiffer, Dave Matthews
- Episode 87Clarissa Ward, Pete Holmes
- Episode 88Wanda Sykes, Robert Smigel, Dan & Peggy Reeder
- Episode 89Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Robert Lopez, Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad, the Broadway cast of "The Book Of Mormon"
- Episode 90Elijah Wood, David Alan Grier, Lea Michele, the Broadway cast and orchestra of "Chess"
- Episode 91Edward Norton, José Andrés
- Episode 92John Mulaney, David Byrne
- Episode 93Nathan Lane, Arsenio Hall
- Episode 94Meryl Streep, Maggie Rogers
- Episode 95Paul Simon, Ramy Youssef
- Episode 96Keanu Reeves, Jack White
- Episode 97Oprah Winfrey, Brandi Carlile
- Episode 98Bryan Cranston, Robert Plant
- Episode 99Maya Rudolph, Nick Offerman, Jeff Tweedy, Hayley Williams
- Episode 100Billy Crystal, Ina Garten
- Episode 101Anne Hathaway, Josh Johnson
- Episode 102Anderson Cooper, Patton Oswalt
- Episode 103Don Cheadle, Jake Tapper
- Episode 104Neil deGrasse Tyson, RAYE, John Kerry
- Episode 105Pete Buttigieg, Andy Serkis
- Episode 106Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Michael Stipe
- Episode 107Christopher Nolan, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters
- Episode 108Barack Obama
- Episode 109Sally Field, Chris Stapleton, Evie McGee Colbert
- Episode 110John Krasinski, Jenny Slate, Liam Neeson, John Oliver, Isa Briones, Taylor Dearden, the Avett Brothers
- Episode 111Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Annaleigh Ashford, Christopher Jackson, Bernadette Peters, Ben Platt, Patrick Wilson
- Episode 112Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Pedro Pascal
- Episode 113Barack Obama, Tom Hanks
- Episode 114David Letterman, the Strokes
- Episode 115The Worst of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" (Not A Clip Show!)
- Episode 116Jon Stewart, Steven Spielberg, David Byrne
- Episode 117Bruce Springsteen
- Episode 118Hello Goodbye